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just cause something is an ancient tradition practiced over hundreds of years by smart people does *not* mean it's right it's not very hard to think of many worldviews people intensely studied and defended through the ages that turned out to be completely untrue or cruel

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No, but the older something is the more likely it is doing something important, even if the practitioners don't understand what.

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Tradition is Smarter Than You Are

The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to [a fence] and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If…

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Some people on here have this bizarre misunderstanding of natural selection as something that happened thousands of years ago and isn't relevant because surviving is easier now. No, selection happens on every level and acts on everything constantly.

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It doesn't even have to be selection of the individuals. Ideas and preferences are often exclusionary. If enough people abandon certain ideas for others, you certainly should be able to infer that something is drawing them to the others without specifically knowing what.

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Myth, religion, and tradition can be factually wrong, but that doesn't imply that they are completely random and arbitrary.

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i think id be more down with ppl espousing this viewpoint if they did it across the board, like evenly proposed regressive views on women's rights and trans acceptance as much as they supported other old traditions

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If the old tradition died out, then there was something that led to that as well using the same logic. I'm not in the trad camp myself, since where we were led to where we are, so going back would just be a reinactment leading to our current problems.